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Two New
Worldwide will debut their 80-car Atlantic City catalog auction on February 19 at the Trump Taj Mahal Resort & Casino. Running in conjunction with, and formerly a piece of, the G. Potter King sale, it's a bold venture with the potential to raise the tenor of the whole weekend. We hadn't seen any imported consignments yet at press time, but the American offerings were great and we expect the same from the imports. Contact: www.wwgauctions.com.
From Arizona comes news that Silver is moving the final, Last Chance day of their four-day January sale, held at their regular Fort McDowell Resort Casino location. Silver has always done a final Monday cleanup, "But the way everyone gets so burned out, we thought we'd try something different this year," said Mitch Silver. So rather than four continuous days ending January 24, they'll take a week to round up additional cars, and get back in the game on Saturday the 29th: "Instead of a 50- to 60-car cleanup, we think we can make it into a nice 100- to 125-car sale," said Mitch. Contact: www.silverauctions.com.
Lord Raglan's Type 51
"If Bugatti-worship were a religion, then the atheist Fitzroy Somerset, the 5th Lord Raglan, would have been its pope," wrote The Guardian in their April 2010 obituary. After retiring from the Chairmanship, Lord Raglan was named the third patron of the Bugatti Owners' Club in its 80-year history; and, now, Bonhams has two Bugattis from his estate, a 1933 Type 51 Grand Prix two-seater and 1930 Type 46 cabriolet at their Paris sale on February 5. The Type 51 should easily break the million-dollar mark, and the cabriolet has a low estimate of $411,000. Contact: www.bonhams.com/grandpalais.
Lagonda From the Barn
While an American enthusiast will know the name, few have much contact with Lagonda. In England before the war, though, it occupied a niche much like Aston Martin today--elegant, high-performance cars for those in the know. Cheffins Cambridge Vintage Sale on October 16 found one of the favorites, a 1934 4.4-litre M45 T7 Tourer, off the road since the Fifties in a dry North Country barn. It wasn't an unknown car, as restorers have tried to get at it several times, coveting its intact originality and completeness. Cheffins shifted it for £68,000 ($108,738). It should be spectacular after restoration. Contact: www.cheffins.co.uk.

This article originally appeared in the February, 2011 issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car.